Edith Södergran quotes
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“The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.”
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“My self-confidence comes from the fact that I have discovered my own dimensions. It does not behoove me to make myself smaller than I am.”
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“That the stars are adamant everyone understands— but I won’t give up seeking joy on each blue wave or peace below every gray stone.”
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“I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.”
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“I have a luck cat in my arms, it spins threads of luck. Luck cat, luck cat, make for me three things: make for me a golden ring, to tell me that I am lucky; make for me a mirror to tell me that I am beautiful; make for me a fan to waft away my cumbersome thoughts. Luck cat, luck cat, spin for me some news of my future!”
-- Edith SödergranSource : Edith Södergran, David McDuff (1984). “Complete poems”, Dufour Editions
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“Of all our sunny world I wish only for a garden sofa where a cat is sunning itself. There I should sit with a letter at my breast, a single small letter. That is what my dream looks like.”
-- Edith SödergranSource : Edith Södergran (1984). “Complete Poems”, Dufour Editions
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“Of all our sunny world, i wish only for a garden sofa where a cat is sunning itself”
-- Edith SödergranSource : Edith Södergran (1984). “Complete Poems”, Dufour Editions
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Source : A. H. Almaas (2000). “Diamond Heart: Book Three: Being and the Meaning of Life”, p.25, Shambhala Publications
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“Freedom is never given; it is won.”
Source : Keynote speech given at the Second National Negro Congress, 1937.
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“Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.”
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